Raffaella Fico tells Mario Balotelli: I’ll prove this baby is yours

No going back: Mario Balotelli and Raffaella Fico split up in April after a stormy year together (Picture: Empics)

Raffaella Fico says she wants to prove the striker is the father of her baby and admits she still has strong feelings for him.

Fico, 27, also hit out at the Manchester City star for accusing her of ‘cashing in’ on her pregnancy.

The lingerie model and Balotelli ended their tempestuous relationship in April.

Fico revealed last month she was four months’ pregnant, saying the 21-year-old Italian international was the father.

Balotelli said at the time he would ‘accept full responsibilities once a paternity test’ was taken.

In her open letter published in an Italian magazine, Fico says: ‘This child I desire with all my heart.’

‘I want it because it is not a child that arrived by chance but instead it is the fruit of love between two people, and you know well what I am talking about.

‘This letter was the only way I could speak to you. I am happy to take the DNA test but I still have the text messages you sent me from Krakow [during Euro 2012 in June and July] in which you said you were happy with the news I had given you.’

Fico added she had been ‘deeply hurt as a woman and a mother’.

She added: ‘Even if the events of life have separated us, you will be a present and responsible father, as well as one being full of love for his child.

‘You know full well where to find me and I will always be ready to speak with you about the future of your child. Of our child.

‘My tummy is getting bigger all the time and it’s not easy to hide.’

Balotelli, who has yet to respond to the letter, has been photographed in nightclubs in his home town of Brescia and in the south of France since hearing of the pregnancy.

He has been given extra holiday time while his City team-mates are on a pre-season tour of Austria.